Pierpoint John (44 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. An original 9" x 12" presskit that contains five supplements as well as eight 8 x 10 stills. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color Specimen Illustrations (illustrator). Reprint Edition. Copyright Date: 1860 Quarto, 1989, PP.168,

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Twenty-fifth edition. 12mo. xii, 13-480 pages. Brown sheepskin leather binding with gilt stamped leather title label on the spine. A few light rubs to the leather on the spine and on the extremities. The front paste down, right front flyleaf is edge torn, chipped and 'molted". Moderate toning to the end sheets and text. Previous owner inscription of "William B. Jackson Savannah Georgia November 1842" written on the front paste down. Book label of "John T. Grant" on the right front flyleaf.

Hardcover. First Edition. 122 pp. Drawings. References. Corners bumped. Plastic covered ring binder. Signed by Jones and Pierpoint on the title page. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed by Author Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sowerby, John E (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Well preserved in original cloth Wear to corners and a little creasing of title page, 32 superb hand coloured plates as called for. Clean throughout with no notes.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John E. Sowerby (illustrator). 2nd Edition. British Poisonous Plants illustrated by John E. Sowerby Described by Chrales Johnson, Botanical Lecturer at Guy's Hospital and C. Pierpoint Johnson.Second Edition 1861. Illustrated with 32 colour plates including the principle poisonous fungi. Brown cloth binding with gilt title to front and spine. Minimal shelf wear, corners very slightly bumped. Some wear to top and bottom of spine. Pages are clean and clear with occasional minor spotting. Pencil marks in margins on several pages. Previous owner inscription in ink on front paste down dated 1903. Complete with all 32 hand coloured plates. Very Good copy. Rare in all editions. Seller Inventory #002569.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by John A. Sowerby (illustrator). Illustrated by John Sowerby with an introduction and a key to the Natural Orders, by C. Peirpoint Johnson. Re-issue: To which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by E. Sowerby. Clean green publishers cloth decorated with gilt borders and titles All edges gilt. (xxiv) 180pp. Mainly illustrated with hand color plates with a few b/w engravings. Pictorial frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Dark green endpaper. Botany, British Wild Flowers. Plants; Color Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 186 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Rebound in modern green cloth with green leather spine label and title in gilt, cover shows minimal wear. All edges gilt. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. With 80 hand-colored plates.

Tall 8vo (9¾ x 6¾ ins). Original gilt decorated bevelled-edges green cloth, all edges gilt (scuffed at corners - otherwise bright VG). Pp. lii + 186, all plates complete and unmarked (previous owner's neat 1904 gift inscription on verso of front endpaper).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. John E. Sowerby; John W. Slater (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated botanical reference work, looking at the wild flowers of Britain, complete with ninety hand coloured plates. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, eighty-nine hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.Collated, complete.This work is intended as a reference guide to the amaeatuer botanist, the field-botanist, the country resident, or the summer rambler. It offers information of a wide variety of wild flowers that can be found in the British countryside, offering a little scientific information to accompany it.Illustrated by John E. Sowerby Sowerby was a botanical illustrator who inherited a taste for botanical drawing from his grandfather, James Sowerby. He also illustrated 'Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants', 'An Illustrated Key to the Natural Orders of British WIld Flowers', 'The Ferns of Great Britain', and more.Written by C. Pierpoint Johnson. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little light rubbing to the spine and extremities. A few small marks to the cloth. Spine is discoloured. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Sowerby, John E. (illustrator). Fifth Edition. recently rebacked copy with new endpapers and green buckram spine, surviving part of original spine glued on, attractive gilt-decorated front cover, rear board decorated in blind, 324 pages, all edges gilt, with 25 hand-coloured plates illustrating hundreds of species, some foxing and browning affecting foredge and occasionally at spine edges of text, but overall a clean sound copy. Book is undated, but other sellers mention 1862. Sowerby's Plate 2 is signed and dated August 1861. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Good. John E. Sowerby (illustrator). Beautifully illustrated, extensive botanical work on British plants and their uses for food, medicine and more. In decorative green cloth binding. Rebacked with spine laid down.Featuring 25 beautiful colour plates, with plate 14 bound as the frontispiece. Collated, complete. Illustrated by prominent botanical artist, John Edward Sowerby.Resourceful and detailled exploration of various British vegetables and plants and their uses for food, medicine and more. From botanist and editor, Charles Pierpoint Johnson, best known for British Wildflowers (1876). In decorative green cloth binding. Rebacked with spine laid down. Externally, with slight rubbing to spine tips, minor loss of cloth and staining to both boards. Internally, binding to frontispiece delicate, otherwise firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, featuring light spotting, heavier to front and rear. Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. John E Sowerby (illustrator). A scarce copy of this guide to British poisonous plants, the second edition complete with thirty-two hand-coloured plates by John E Sowerby . The second edition of this work, scarce in all editions. A short and comprehensive guide to British poisonous plants described by Charles Johnson and C. Pierpoint Johnson, compiled due to the occurrence of accidental poisoning in the country during the nineteenth century.This edition contains four additional plates and descriptive text of the principal Fungi in Britain. Collated, complete with thirty-two full page plates, masterfully hand-coloured, by John E. Sowerby. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Previous ownership inscription in pencil to the front pastedown, dated 1973. Internally, firmly bound, the hinges starting to the first leaf of plate bound in to the rear. The pages are bright and clean with only the odd minor faint spotting to the odd leaf. Illustrated with thirty-two hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete. Very Good. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. John E Sowerby (illustrator). 4to. 324 pp, 25 hand col'd pls (300 figs), ex-library F Edward Hulme - author of numerous works of natural history most famously 'Familiar Wild Flowers' , 'Familiar Garden Flowers' with his dated signature on the front paste-down, some light foxing to foredges and endpapers, small red splash mark on foredges and edge of rear endpapers, otherwise light browning and ocasional light foxing, good in original green cloth gilt, recased with original spine relaid, extremities spine and boards a little scuffed, good. Please see images supplied. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Association Inscription.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. John E. Sowerby; John W. Slater (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated botanical reference work, looking at the wild flowers of Britain, complete with ninety hand-coloured plates. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, eighty-nine hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.Collated, complete.This work is intended as a reference guide to the amaeatuer botanist, the field-botanist, the country resident, or the summer rambler. It offers information of a wide variety of wild flowers that can be found in the British countryside, offering a little scientific information to accompany it.Illustrated by John E. Sowerby Sowerby was a botanical illustrator who inherited a taste for botanical drawing from his grandfather, James Sowerby. He also illustrated 'Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants', 'An Illustrated Key to the Natural Orders of British Wild Flowers', 'The Ferns of Great Britain', and more.Written by C. Pierpoint Johnson. In a full cloth binding, rebacked with the original publisher's boards and spine restored. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the extremities. A little light rubbing to the cloth, a little heavier to the rear board. A few small marks to the cloth. Hinges have been reinforced. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only the occasional scattered spot. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. John E. Sowerby (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good. Publishers green cloth, embossed in gilt and blind. Covers edge-worn. The joint to the upper board is split to the top half. 1863 re-issue of the first edition 'to which is now added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, horsetails, and club-mosses by John E. Sowerby'. Front fly-leaf inscribed in contemporaneous hand 'Miss Clough with the Publisher's compliments'. this may be Anne Clough, the early English suffragist. xlix and 186pp. Illustrated with 89 pages of beautifully hand-coloured plates, showing various flowers. All edges gilt.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Charles Brooks from John Pierpont" 30 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp lii, 186, 80 pages of hand-coloured plates (1780 figures). Original publishers green cloth boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and front cover with all edges gilt and bevelled. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby. The expanded reissue of Sowerby's classic work on British Wild Flowers, "to which is now added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter, ALS, FGS and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-mosses by John E. Sowerby" Faint wear and slight rubbing at spine ends and corners, otherwise sound, clean, very good indeed. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 1894 Edition. Very Good with some bumps and show of wear. NO ODOR or smell. Previous owner name inside, otherwise clean text. All illustrations beautiful and in tact. Original spine. Minor split on back edge of spine. A strong, collectible copy! For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Cloth. No Jacket. John E. Sowerby (illustrator). Reissue. Hardback Reissue To Which Is Added A Supplement Containing 180 Figures Lately Discovered Flowering Plants by John W Salter And The Ferns Horsetails And ClubMosses by John E Sowerby Bound in the publishers original green cloth with embossed floral detail and titles to the front beautifully embellished gilt detail to the spine The boards and spine although still attached have become loose from the contents All edges gilt The binding is weak There is a neat inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper dated 1874 and a signature to the top of the title page dated 1876 There are numerous dried flowers within the pages of the text The pages are lightly toned with the very occasional spot of foxing otherwise a very clean copy Beautifully illustrated throughout with hand coloured plates including a frontispiece and two in monochrome pp xlix 186 A beautifully illustrated botanical reference booknbsp. book.

Gr.8° (25,5 x 17,5 cm); blindgepr. OLwdbd. (Kaliko) mit dekorativen goldgepr. Deckel- und Rückentiteln; Ganzgoldschnitt; koloriertes Frontispiz; (LII) Seiten 2 Tafeln mit 23 s/w-Pflanzenzeichnungen; 186 Seiten mit 1780 farb. Abbildungen auf 89 Tafeln; Verzeichnis der lateinischen und englischen Namen. Einband am Kapital und an den Ecken bestoßen; Gelenke leicht angeplatzt; Vorsatzblätter mit Stockflecken; Buchseiten gering nachgedunkelt, aber sauber.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. HARDBACK VOLUME BOUND IN A SLIGHTLY LATER HALF LEATHER BINDING, WITH MARBLED BOARDS & ENDPAPERS, PAGE EDGES, HAND COLOURED FRONTIS + NUMEROUS FULL PAGE HAND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 10 x 7 INCHES. SOME MINOR RUBBING TO MARBLED BOARDS & EDGES OF COVER, CORNERS BUMPED, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING MOSTLY TO FIRST FEW TEXT PAGES & ENDPAPERS, OCCASIONAL MINOR WRINKLES OR MINOR CREASE TO PAGE MARGINS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & GILT TO LEATHER SPINE BRIGHT. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.